Guest Blogger: Roger Vivier’s Bruno Frisoni

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At the Roger Vivier cocktail party

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At the MoMA

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The Standard Hotel

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The Carlyle

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For the first of a new Vogue.com series featuring guest bloggers, we asked Roger Vivier creative director Bruno Frisoni to write about his recent whirlwind trip to New York.

This is one of my shortest trips to New York: 36 hours! All is back to back, but I am very excited to be here.

Monday5:00 p.m.: I land at JFK and even before setting foot into my favorite hotel in New York, the Carlyle, I need to go to Nike to buy running shoes. So I do. Just before the store closes for the night. Now, I’m all geared up for a morning run in Central Park tomorrow morning.

7:00 p.m.: I arrive at the Carlyle and get ready to go out for dinner. On my first night, I always try to see two very dear friends of mine who always make me feel at home in the City.

9:00 p.m.: Destination: Nobu.

12:00 a.m.: Early to bed. Jet lag starts to hit.

Tuesday7:30 a.m.: Ready for a run in Central Park, followed by breakfast at the Carlyle with my favorite PR person. I have to do my homework. Cannot get out of it!

10:30 a.m.: A couple of meetings at the store.

12:00 p.m.: Rendez-Vous fall collection launch and luncheon at the Roger Vivier boutique with 30 lovely ladies. Samantha Boardman Rosen hosts it with me, and we are happy to support her art charity for kids, “Studio in a School,” a visual art program that fosters the creative and intellectual development of young children in New York.

3:00 p.m.: I run to FIT to see Daphne Guinness’s wonderful show and then back to the store for another series of appointments.

6:00 p.m.: Alexandra Richards, cool and beautiful, the beauty Annabelle Dexter-Jones, who has a kind of Parisian look and style, and Gossip GirlLeighton Meester, so pretty and natural she arrived at our party without any makeup on, join me at Roger Vivier to co-host a cocktail party and celebrate the fall collection. Alexandra DJed and the atmosphere was fun and young. Annabelle shows me a mustache tattooed on the inside of her index finger: she takes a pensive look . . . brings her hand up and puts her index finger over her lips, as if to say, “See my mustache?” So cute and I’d never seen it before . . . have you?

7:00 p.m.: My friend Hamish Bowles joins the party. It’s always a pleasure to see him. Muriel Brandolini was there too; she is my New York base, a great friend. We always have amazing conversations and ideas together. It is so inspirational talking to her, listening to her points of view. She has an eye, she is chic, and she also rocks the town. With a few friends we decide to go to Antonucci on Eighty-first Street. I like that restaurant. It is cozy, really Italian—the food is delicious.

Wednesday9:00 a.m.: Breakfast at the Carlyle with my dear friend Amanda Brooks. Great conversation about what’s going on: family, her new, exciting job at Barneys. It was a light and friendly moment. She gave me good energy to start the day.

11:00 a.m.: My New York addiction: the MoMA. A great retrospective of Willem de Kooning. A moment of joy and pleasure, during which I found many answers.

1:00 p.m.: The trip is over. I have to get ready for my flight to Miami. My guardian angel Dino is here to drive me.